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SAMUEL DUNCAN CULBERTSON, railroad agent, Mansfield Valley, is a grandson of Dr. Samuel D. Culbertson, who was one of seven brothers who came from Ireland and settled near Chambersburg, Pa., at a place still known as Culbertson’s Row. The doctor soon moved to Chambersburg, where he died in his ninetieth year. His death was caused by exposure after the burning of his residence at the time Chambersburg was destroyed by the confederates. His son, Albert, born in 1822, came to Pittsburgh when a youth and began life as a clerk in a store. For a time he kept books for a commission firm (Poindexter & Co.), and afterward engaged in the commission business on his own account. In 1858 he went to Monongahela City and commenced the manufacture of paper, his mill being the first west of the Allegheny mountains and the second in the United States to use steam-rolls. He died there in 1879; his widow now resides in the city of Allegheny. Mrs. Culbertson was born in Allegheny, and is a daughter of James Brown, one of the early iron-manufacturers here, and who died in his ninety-fifth year. Emily Brown married Albert Culbertson when she was sixteen years old, and is the mother of three sons and four daughters.

Samuel D., the third of these, was born in the city of Allegheny Aug. 12, 1850, and was educated at Monongahela City and Tuscarora Academy. He early began to assist his father in the paper-mill, and is a skilled maker of strawboard. In 1882 he came to Pittsburgh and entered the employ of the B. & O. railroad. Has been employed by the P. & W. and Pittsburgh Junction roads, and is now commercial freight agent of the St. Louis & San Francisco railroad. While a resident of Monongahela City he served as city auditor. He is a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Mansfield, and of the Masonic fraternity, and is a republican. In September, 1874, Mr. Culbertson married Annie Wallace, daughter of the late J. W. Cook (see his sketch), and their living children are: Elvira Harshman, Lily Cook, Jacob Cook and Clara Walton. Emily C., the first born, is deceased.